Patch for zip to deal with dos paths

[Charles S. Wilson]

I will take a look after I get back -- I'm leaving town for a few days 
starting tonight.

--Chuck
zip/unzip maintainer

Michael Schaap wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For what it's worth.  Here's a patch to zip that fixes the behaviour 
> with regard to dos path names.  It deals with two issues:
>  - backslashes are converted to slashes,
>  - drive names are stripped when converting an absolute to relative path.
> 
> The behaviour of cygwin zip with this patch is the same as the native 
> win32 version.  In fact, the code added to unix/unix.c essentially comes 
> from win32/win32zip.c (slightly simplified).
> 
> Of course, this breaks the feature of using NTFS streams with a single 
> character file name.  ;-)
> 
> Take it or leave it,
> 
>  - Michael
> 
>


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